BRASILIA – Brazil’s south-eastern state of Minas Gerais declared a public health emergency on Saturday following an outbreak of yellow fever in nearly 100 cities over the last several months. Yellow fever is a disease […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she will be succeeded by Sebastian Piñera in March. Bachelet, who led UN […]
SANTIAGO – Since 1995, Chile has been declared as free of the fruit fly. Within the South American continent, it is the only nation that holds this category, which constitutes a comparative advantage for the […]
JOSEFINA SALOMON MEXICO CITY – As Daniel*, a 26-year-old architect, stood before a visibly exhausted doctor in the main public hospital of the once-idyllic beach resort town of Isla Margarita, northern Venezuela, a terrifying premonition […]
SANTIAGO – This week, the Government of Chile and the World Bank Group announced the formal opening of the World Bank Group’s Office in Santiago, capping 72 years of partnership. The office was inaugurated Wednesday […]
SANTIAGO – A 35-year-old woman died on Friday afternoon while undergoing surgery at the Paris Surgery and Aesthetics Clinic, located on Hernando de Magallanes Avenue, in the Las Condes district. Sorangel Álvarez Gómez, a Venezuelan […]
SANTIAGO – Italy-based contractor Astaldi has been awarded the €140 million (US$166.3 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a new hospital in the center of Linares, Chile. The new complex in the Maule […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s government is struggling to control a growing number of new HIV cases, which have doubled over the past decade. Today about 25,000 people are being treated for the virus in Chile, and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. In the Americas, the percentage of adults who are obese is more than twice the world average, with more women affected than […]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Congressional Mental Health and Drug Commission is considering a national mental health bill that proposes to improve mental health services for all in Mexico but would seriously jeopardize the rights of […]
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